Aubameyang – Gabon’s masked maverick striker

The transfer of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang to Arsenal will delight Premier League fans, but he left a trail of unrest in his wake at Borussia Dortmund.

Arsenal finally met Dortmund’s asking price for the Bundesliga’s top scorer last season, when Aubameyang netted 31 goals in 32 German league games.

The Gunners confirmed Aubameyang had joined for a new club record, reportedly £56 million ($79.2m, 63.7m euros).

However, despite clinical finishing and lethal pace, Aubameyang’s Dortmund legacy — 141 goals in 213 matches in all competitions — is tainted by the manner of his departure.

“I don’t know him any more,” fumed disgruntled sporting director Michael Zorc when Aubameyang, 28, made it crystal clear he wanted out earlier this month.

Dortmund’s French-born ‘Enfant Terrible’ has always been known for outlandish behaviour.

– Masks and somersaults –

Arsenal fans can expect him to don masks or somersault to celebrate goals.

However, a warning to Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger is that three Dortmund coaches — current boss Peter Stoeger, plus predecessors Peter Bosz and Thomas Tuchel — have had to discipline Aubameyang over the last 16 months.

It started with minor indiscretions, like shaving the logo of private sponsors Nike into his hair, although Dortmund are backed by Puma.

He was dropped by then coach-Tuchel in November 2016 for taking a private jet to Milan, just before a Champions League game, to see family.

Then he annoyed Dortmund team-mates by checking his father and brother into the team hotel during a winter training camp in Spain in early January.

Matters came to a head when he was kicked out of the squad for their first game of 2018, a goalless draw with Wolfsburg on January 14.

Having also been dropped in November by Bosz for arriving late to training, Stoeger again ejected him for missing a team meeting.

It left the club red-faced, a day after CEO Hans-Joachim Watzke had described Aubameyang as the “total professional” in a Die Welt interview.